Kharkiv Art Museum

Kharkiv's most famous museum owns one of many versions of Ilya Repin's Zaporizhsky Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, which is found in a room full of Repin paintings in the museum's permanent collection. The entire collection of romantic paintings here is of a high standard for Ukraine but the neighbouring exhibit hall is hit-or-miss. The museum also curates the little-known Parkhomivka History & Arts Museum.

While you're here check out the former KGB building a block west of the museum. Now the Department for Internal Affairs, it has a bust of Felyx Edmundovych, a high-ranking KGB member, on one wall.